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UPDATE (India): Supreme Court refuses to reconsider President’s decision to allow execution 

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to intervene in the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution date has been set for 4am tomorrow, 14 August 20...

UPDATE (India): Supreme Court refuses to reconsider President’s decision to allow execution 

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently requests you to intervene in the case of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution date has been set for 4am tomorrow, 14 August 20...

INDIA: Indian Supreme Court’s decision devoid of merit

In declining to use its powers to review the death sentence of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, the Supreme Court of India has today not only declined to take responsibility for the life that it has condemned, b...

INDIA: Ten years of waiting for justice in West Bengal end with a funeral

The Calcutta High Court last Wednesday took a short time to announce a decision on a matter that had stood before India’s courts for a decade: it granted leave to prosecute police officers alleg...

INDIA: Torture and murder of a woman by armed forces in India 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE) on the exra-judicial killing of a 32-year old woman nam...

UPDATE ( India): Please send a letter to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Mr. Dhananjay Chatterjee 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urgently asks you to send a strong letter to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Dhananjoy Chatterjee! According to the exist...

INDIA: A 32 year old man severely tortured and killed by Kharagpur Police, West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Soumyendu Mondal was arrested from his house by the police from Kharagpur Police Station and was...

INDIA: Human rights defenders attacked for attempting to rescue children from circus 

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault on Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of the Indian non-governmental organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan (...

INDIA: Campaign for total ban on Death penalty-capital punishment 

Dear friends, Please send a letter to the President of India and Supreme Court of India and ask them to commute the death sentence of Mr. Dhananjoy Chatterjee! The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)...

INDIA: A 60 year old man severely tortured by the Thrithala police 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Kolavan (60 years) was severely tortured at the Thrithala Police Station on 8February 2004. It i...

INDIA: A detainee waiting for trial for 24 years develops mental illness 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Satya Pal has been detained in Jail for about 24 years as an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) since he...

INDIA: A man brutally tortured by the Pavaratty Police and Guruvayoor Police now suffers from police inaction 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Baburaj P.K, 44, was brutally tortured by police officers from the Guruvayoor Police Station and Pavara...

INDIA: A torture victim is forced to give bribes to his perpetrator while the police fabricate charges against him 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Vigil India Movement that a man named P.K. Joy was illegally detained in police custody and brutally tortured by he...

INDIA: One man beaten to death while another seriously injured by the Thrissur Traffic Police Station officers 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from JANANEETHI, a human rights organization in Kerala, India, that one man was beaten to death while another was seriou...

INDIA: A man allegedly tortured to death and the police attempt to cover up the incident by fabricating charges 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our partner organization MASUM that a man named Kanai Santra died after being severely assaulted by the police whil...

INDIA: Brutal attack on Dalits settlement in the Kalapatti Village, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu by upper caste

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the Dalit Human Rights Monitoring (DHRM) on the brutal attack on Dalits settlement in the Kalapatti village of Coimb...

INDIA: A young man was allegedly tortured to death in judicial custody at the sub jail at Calicut, Kerala

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man named Mr. Jinesh died in judicial custody on 20 April 2004 allegedly due to severe torture by the jail ...

INDIA: Brutal torture of a man in police custody by the Srirampur Police

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the brutal torture by the Srirampur Police on Sri Tarun Mallick (45) on 10 April 2004.  The police officers from ...

UPDATE (India): Post mortem procedures in West Bengal and the case of Mousumi Ari

Dear friends Further to the letter by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on defective post mortem procedures in West Bengal (see http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2004/639/) and Urgent Appe...

INDIA: West Bengal police shoot dead alleged criminal and then imprison innocent boy on pretext

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 27 January 2004, Officer in Charge of Sandeshkhali Police Station, West Bengal, Mr Prabir Banerjee, led a large f...